12th Annual Fall Symposium

Advances in Structural Biology

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

12:00 PM       Registration

 2:00 PM        Opening Remarks

 2:15 PM        Richard Vierstra (University of Wisconsin)

Atomic perspectives on phytochrome photoactivation and signaling

 3:00 PM        William Cramer (Purdue University)

Traveling inside the cytochrome b6f complex.

 3:45 PM        Break

 4:15 PM        Jan Kern (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

                        Structural model of photosystem II at 2.9Å resolution

 5:00 PM        John Peters (Montana State)

                        Insights into the biosynthesis and evolution of complex iron-sulfur cluster containing hydrogenases and nitrogenases

 5:45 PM        Mixer in the Upper Atrium

Thursday, September 30, 2010

 9:00 AM        Christopher Akey (Boston University)

                        Structural studies on apoptosomes

 9:45 AM        Timothy Baker (UCSD)

                        Dissecting the viral life cycle, one step at a time with cryoEM and 3D reconstruction

10:30 AM       Break

11:00 AM       Martin Egli (Vanderbilt University)

                        Structure and Mechanism of the KaiABC Circadian Clock

11:45 AM       Elizabeth Getzoff (Scripps Research Insitute)

                        The atomic structure of the ABA receptor

12:30 PM       Lunch

 1:30 PM        Brandt Eichman (Vanderbilt University)

                        Unraveling the structure of Mcm10, an essential component of the eukaryotic DNA replisome.

 2:15 PM        Thomas Ellenberger (Washington University in St. Louis)

                        Structural biology of DNA end joining

 3:00 PM        Break

 3:30 PM        Joe Noel (Salk Institute)

                        Structure-driven metabolic pathway modification

 4:15 PM        Todd Yeates (UCLA)

                        Atomic structure of the carbon fixing organelle; the carboxysome

 5:00 PM        Poster Session

 6:30 PM        Dinner

Friday, October 1, 2010

 9:00 AM         Ning Zheng (University of Washington)

                        Targeting ubitquitin ligases: plant hormones and drug discovery

 9:45 AM         Thomas Walz (Harvard Medical School)

                        Lipid-protein interactions in 2D crystals of aquaporin-0

10:30 AM       Break

11:00 AM       Joe Jez (Washington University in St. Louis)

                        Sensing sulfur in plants: biochemical integration of multiple inputs.

11:45 AM       Thomas Smith (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center)

                        From structure to clinic, treating a deadly insulin disorder with tea